The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 9, sentence 161

The buffaloes were anxious enough to get to the village.

Who acts: buffaloes · What happens: be, get

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (buffaloes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 buffaloes	det
2	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 anxious	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 anxious	cop
4	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 anxious	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 anxious	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 village	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 village	det
10	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 anxious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the buffaloes					anxious, enough property	tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive	the buffaloes not said here					to the village result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to village=Result

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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